Overall Objectives of the Project
This site is
sponsored by
The Steinmetz
Family of
Los Angeles
The Samuel H.
Kress Founda-
tion
The Vincenzo
Romagnoli
Group
The Creative Kids
Education Foundation
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Computing
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Last revised:
Jan. 1, 2002
When we first developed the project in December, 1996 our goals were:
(1) providing a close reading of the Licenza valley through the early medieval period based on an archaeological survey and archival research;
(2) establishing the natural property lines of the Villa of Horace as well as the ancient access road from the Via Licinese to the complex excavated on the site earlier this century;
(3) looking for evidence of a pars rustica for the Villa of Horace;
(4) verifying the state plan of existing structures and re-examining the different construction phases of the villa;
(5) exploring the unexcavated areas of the complex that have been exposed, including the garden area in the large peristyle and the western hillside to establish actual limits of the residential complex and to recover archaeological data from an undisturbed, complete stratigraphical sequence;
(6) publishing a final excavation report, integrating the reports of earlier work by the Baron de Saint Odile and Allan Ramsay in the eighteenth century and by Angelo Pasqui, Thomas Price and the Archaeological Superintendency of Lazio in the twentieth;
(7) conserving material found on the site, particularly the mosaics and wall paintings;
(8) creating a virtual reality model of the site to be published
on the World Wide Web and to be included as part of a didactic
exhibition for visitors to the villa during the year 2000.
Fieldwork operations were to include:
(9) field survey and collection of surface finds;
(10) magnetic and electrical surveys;
(11) borings, preliminary soundings, excavations;
(12) palaeobotanical studies.
